Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend") Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Framegrabber? Message-ID: <1991Jan24.001636.4693@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 00:16:36 GMT References: Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 23 In article ghost@bucsf.bu.edu (Jay Adelson) writes: >Could some people post some comments on the framegrabber? I'll assume you're talking about the Mimetics Framebuffer+grabber... I've got one, and it seems to work quite well. I have a couple of complaints, however, that are resolvable: 1. It's slow saving and loading anything other than "raw dumps". The image must be converted from the Mimetic's internal format into IFF of the appropriate size and resolution. This is not a trivial problem (compute wise), and my stock A2000 is not exactly the fastest machine in the world. Solution: buy a GVP '030 card of some sort. 2. Really non-intuitive and somewhat hostile user interface. It *is* release 1.0something, so I'm not too surprised that it's painful. My developer's kit is supposed to be on its merry way, so maybe I can do something about this sometime in the near future. -- J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Mangler - UH Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 Motorola skates on Intel's head!